Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

The only mitred presbyter I know was Fr. Alexander Schmemann of blessed memory in the OCA. So, it definitely is not a common phenomenon. But, Fr. Schmemann was never called Archipresbyter, but Protopresbyter. Are the two terms synonymous?

In Poland rank of an Archypresbyter is much more higher than the rank of Mitrate, Protopresbyter or permission two wear second cross. It's hardly mythical.

Interesting. Many of these ranks developed rather late in the Russian Church, so they do not exist in the ancient Patriarchates. Perhaps someone more familiar with 18th century Russia could speak up, but I myself have never read of Mitred priests until after Peter the Great's major reforms.

Along Polish lines: The most important bishops involved in Peter's reforms were educated by Jesuits in Poland. That became the way to go for quite some time.

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But for I am a man not textueel I wol noght telle of textes neuer a deel. (Chaucer, The Manciple's Tale, 1.131)

But, Fr. Schmemann was never called Archipresbyter, but Protopresbyter. Are the two terms synonymous?

Never heard of Archipresbyters. As far as I understand it, in the Russian-inspired traditions, a Protopresbyter is actually higher than a Mitred Archpriest. So, while a Mitred Archpriest is rare, a Protopresbyter (sometimes called Protopriest) is even more rare.

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But for I am a man not textueel I wol noght telle of textes neuer a deel. (Chaucer, The Manciple's Tale, 1.131)

But, Fr. Schmemann was never called Archipresbyter, but Protopresbyter. Are the two terms synonymous?

Never heard of Archipresbyters. As far as I understand it, in the Russian-inspired traditions, a Protopresbyter is actually higher than a Mitred Archpriest. So, while a Mitred Archpriest is rare, a Protopresbyter (sometimes called Protopriest) is even more rare.

And an Archipresbyter is even higher than them.

I know dosens of Mitrates and several Protopriests but I've heard only about one Archipriest.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.